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The flow of love between two young khanjana birds merely dissolves in their limbs, but no sexual intercourse takes place on ground in which no treasure has been buried.*

The Creator, who dwells in the navel as dear friend of Shri and Keshava, turns blind when he is not supposed to be looking, and deaf when the occasion demands discre- tion.*

Silk-worm! You let your threads come out in front of forest-dwellers. It is lucky for you that they do not rip your stomach open to investigate.*

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Her love for you has no concern for respectability, flouts her elders, has no desire for money, is not in the interest of her child, is simply asking for infamy, and disregards her very survival.*

More than your offense itself it is your stringing these false words together that causes me pain; to be stabbed by a weapon is not as painful as the prick of a needle.*

That mysterious something going on in the mind of the frivolous woman, which is reflected in the mirror of her eyes, as if shrouded in darkness cannot be discerned even by the eye of Sarasvati, as if she had cataract.*